Friday, August 28, 2026

Rose Bowl Game Tickets Go on Sale Wednesday

The Pasadena Tournament of Roses opens its public ticket sale for the 113th Rose Bowl Game at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Tickets are sold online through Ticketmaster, with a maximum of four per person.

Individual seats start at $202.90 including fees.

The game will match one of the four highest-seeded teams against the winner of a first-round game and will kick off at either 1 p.m. or 5 p.m., the association said in a news release Thursday announcing the sale.

The association also renewed its partnership with On Location as the official hospitality and corporate travel package provider. Each package includes a Rose Bowl Game ticket, and buyers can add reserved Rose Parade seats, pre-game hospitality at what the association calls the Official Rose Bowl Hospitality Village and meet-and-greets with NCAA legends, the association said.

A separate sale reserved for Pasadena residents will open later in the year, the association said.

The game follows the 138th Rose Parade on Friday,

Friday, August 28, 2026

Rutberg Gallery Extends Pasadena Art-History Survey Through September

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts has extended “Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy,” its survey of the city’s part in the rise of the Los Angeles art scene, through Wednesday, Sept. 30, a month past the Saturday closing date the gallery originally had set.

The gallery announced that publication of the exhibition’s catalogue, “A Hidden Story Revealed – Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy,” prompted the extension, adding 32 days. The catalogue runs 176 pages, with 78 illustrations, essays and an eight-page graphic timeline, the gallery said. Printed copies will be available in the coming days, and a digital preview is posted online.

The exhibition, which opened June 7, gathers 70 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by nearly 60 artists, from the gallery’s holdings and all for sale, the gallery said. Each work carries a label noting its provenance and the year a museum presented the artist.

Among them are Hans Burkhardt’s 1948 oil “Pasadena Bridge,” depicting the Colorado Street Bridge, and Fantin-Latour’s recently rediscovered 1887 oil “Bouquet of Flowers,”

Friday, August 28, 2026

Safety Gear and Bottled Water Headed to Altadena’s Rebuild Workers Saturday

Community members will gather at a Pasadena day labor center at 8 a.m. before continuing the action in Altadena, organizers say

Community members and immigrant worker advocates plan to gather at a Pasadena day labor center Saturday morning to bring water and protective equipment to immigrant workers rebuilding Altadena, in what organizers describe as the continuation of a human chain of solidarity with them.

The action will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Pasadena Community Job Center, 500 N. Lake Ave., and continues in Altadena, according to an announcement from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

Participants will distribute water and personal protective equipment and create what the network calls a space of solidarity, music and support. Los Jornaleros del Norte, a band whose members are largely current and former day laborers, is listed among the participants, along with immigrant workers rebuilding Altadena, community members and allies, and immigrant worker advocates.

“As Altadena continues to rebuild, immigrant workers are doing essential work to restore homes and communities,”

Friday, August 28, 2026

Getty Curator to Examine Degas Monotypes at Norton Simon Saturday

A curator from the J. Paul Getty Museum will examine Edgar Degas’s experiments in monotype at the Norton Simon Museum on Saturday, in a free hourlong talk built around the Pasadena museum’s own holdings in the medium.

“The Artist at Play: Degas and Monotype,” by Danielle Canter, assistant curator in the Getty’s Department of Drawings, runs from 5 to 6 p.m. in the museum’s theater. The Norton Simon holds more than 100 works by Degas, a group the museum calls the second-largest assembled by a single collector, after the Havemeyer collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Monotype yields a single impression. Degas encountered it in the 1870s, and it let him blur the boundaries between mediums as he worked with ink, paint and pastel, the museum says. He had come to it as a draftsman, trained under a disciple of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, whose advice, the museum recounts, was: “Draw lines, young man. Many lines.”

The museum’s Degas monotypes include “Squall in the Mountains”

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Supervisors to Take Up Eaton Fire Fraud Crackdown, Altadena Recovery Items Tuesday

Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday will consider ordering a countywide task force to curb contractor fraud and scams targeting Eaton Fire survivors, an effort the motion would fold into the Altadena One-Stop Permitting Center, part of an agenda of 96 numbered items carrying several decisions with direct consequences for the unincorporated community.

The motion, submitted by Supervisor Kathryn Barger, whose 5th District includes Altadena, would instruct the director of the Department of Consumer and Business Affairs to build upon and strengthen existing county consumer protection and wildfire recovery efforts, in collaboration with the district attorney, County Counsel, the director of the Department of Public Works and other relevant county departments, and in consultation with outside partners such as the state Contractors State License Board. The task force would be convened within 30 days.

Within 45 days, the department, working with the Office of Countywide Communications, would implement an expanded consumer awareness campaign delivering centralized information through the Recovery LA website at https://recovery.lacounty.gov and developing materials on verifying contractor licenses,

Thursday, August 27, 2026

PUSD Board to Consider 30% Shade Goal for Student Areas Thursday

The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education will consider a resolution Thursday, Aug. 27, that would set a goal of covering 30% of the outdoor areas designated for student learning, play and circulation with mature tree canopy by 2035.

Resolution No. 2901 would establish a “long range goal” to preserve the district’s existing canopy and work toward 30% through phased implementation. It carries no appropriation. District school sites range between 8% and 15% coverage, according to a 2023 California Schoolyard Tree Canopy Equity study cited in the resolution, which also cites research that canopy reduces urban heat, improves air quality and supports student concentration and academic performance.

Superintendent Elizabeth Blanco or a designee would have six months to present a draft implementation plan and 12 months to bring a detailed plan to the seven-member board.

Pasadena Unified manages approximately 5,000 trees. Recent budget reductions have cut grounds staffing by approximately 50%, “affecting the District’s ability to maintain its existing tree inventory and any additional trees planted under this Resolution,”

Thursday, August 27, 2026

John Muir High School Plans Centennial Celebration, Launches $100,000 Legacy Fund

By ANDRÈ COLEMAN, Managing Editor

John Muir High School will celebrate its 100th anniversary in November with a centennial gathering honoring generations of students and alumni while launching a $100,000 fundraising campaign to support the school’s future.

The Centennial Celebration is scheduled for Nov. 1 at 10 a.m. at the Rufus Mead Auditorium, 1905 Lincoln Ave. Pasadena Federal Credit Union has donated $10,000 as the event’s first presenting sponsor, according to the John Muir High School Alumni Association.

“We are honored to support John Muir High School’s Centennial Celebration,” Pasadena Federal Credit Union Chief Executive Officer (CEO) James Chang said. “This is a celebration of a proud legacy, the generations of students and educators who have made a lasting impact, and the bright future that lies ahead.”

The celebration will include ceremonies honoring distinguished alumni, including Jackie Robinson, author Octavia Butler and several Olympic champions. Current Muir students will perform, and organizers are planning a Homecoming Alumni Picnic in the school’s “M”

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Local Nonprofit to Fill a Truck for Gary, Indiana, Repaying Eaton Fire Aid

Project Passion, Inc., the Pasadena nonprofit that grew out of the Eaton Fire relief effort, will collect hygiene supplies, diapers, cleaning products, gift cards and cash for storm-damaged Gary, Indiana, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at 1609 Navarro Ave. in Pasadena.

The event is being held in partnership with Relief Gang and a
coalition of local organizations like Victory Bible Church, Neighborhood Survants, Juicy Little Society, Its Bigger Than Us, and The Source LA.

The drive comes on the heels of Project Passion Founder Brandon Lamar’s recent trip to Gary, Indiana, where he spent two and a half days on the ground meeting with residents and community leaders, sharing best practices from the response to the Eaton Fire.

Gary, Indiana is recovering from severe storms that caused extended power outages and exposed infrastructure challenges, which caused the city, whose population is 85% African American, to be without power for over 14 days.

“I just got back from spending two and a half days in Gary,

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Four Pasadena Unified Schools to Be Honored at State PBIS Conference in October

Four Pasadena Unified schools will be recognized at the annual California PBIS Conference in October, the district announced.

James Madison Elementary School, John Muir High School Early College Magnet and Rose City High School earned Platinum, the highest level in California’s statewide recognition system.

Pasadena High School earned Gold, the district said.

The California PBIS Coalition named nearly 2,700 award recipients for the 2025-26 school year, recognizing schools for supportive, inclusive and positive learning environments.

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports is a multi-tiered framework rather than a curriculum. Schools set clear behavioral expectations, then teach and recognize those behaviors, an approach the district says helps students feel supported, reduces disciplinary incidents and improves academic outcomes.

In Pasadena Unified the work runs through Behavior Response to Intervention, which the district describes as a proactive, comprehensive and data-driven system that identifies students needing help early and adds increasing tiers of support, with lessons on life skills and evidence-based interventions.

“These awards honor the model work happening in our schools to support students’

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Board of Education to Consider Resolution on Elementary School Screen Time

Measure would direct superintendent to study reductions; follows action by Los Angeles and San Diego districts

The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education is scheduled to vote Thursday on a resolution directing Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Blanco to review elementary school technology practices and to recommend ways to significantly reduce what the document calls non-essential screen-based instructional time.

Resolution 2899, titled “Supporting Developmentally Appropriate Limits on Screen-Based Instruction in Elementary Schools,” would not itself set limits on classroom technology use. It directs Blanco to conduct the review and return with recommendations while maintaining compliance with state and federal requirements, and directs the district to explore developing guidelines for screen use in elementary classrooms.

The measure comes four months after the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to direct staff to develop grade-specific limits on classroom devices and two months after San Diego Unified took up a resolution on its own technology practices.

The resolution states that educators and families have expressed concerns about the amount of time elementary students spend on screen-based activities during the school day.